Abstract:
-Clustering in (e.g., -median and -means) is a fundamental machine learning problem. While near-linear time approximation algorithms were known in the classical setting for a dataset with cardinality , it remains open to find sublinear-time quantum algorithms. We give quantum algorithms that find coresets for -clustering in with query complexity. Our coreset reduces the input size from to , so that existing -approximation algorithms for clustering can run on top of it and yield -approximation. This eventually yields a quadratic speedup for various -clustering approximation algorithms. We complement our algorithm with a nearly matching lower bound, that any quantum algorithm must make queries in order to achieve even -approximation for -clustering.
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